By Abdoulaye Saine
This publication is anxious basically with political and monetary occasions in Africa and The Gambia, specially among the 1994 coup d'etat and 2008. considerably, it proffers coverage options to place this small yet most likely wealthy state to leverage fiscal globalization to profit the terrible. with no trouble understandable to experts and laypersons alike, this e-book is written via a student who has received huge admire, either within the Gambia and the world over, for his dispassionate research of occasions unfolding in his state of start.
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Additionally, the required $1,000 deposit of presidential candidates in a country where the income per capita was at the time below $300 made it The Junior Officer Coup and the Transition to “Civilian Rule”: 1994–1996 29 extremely difficult for all but the incumbent candidate to run. These constitutional flaws, among many others, were the first set of consciously designed strategies to eliminate real and/or potential competitors and opponents to Chairman Yahya Jammeh’s presidential aspirations.
The causes of the coup shall be discussed briefly from two general perspectives outlined earlier in chapter two. THE NATURE OF CIVIL SOCIETY Following the 1992 presidential election, the PPP government began to face the biggest crisis of legitimacy in its history. Internal party factionalism, suggested earlier by Welch, precipitated by the promotion of Saihou Sabally over Bakary Dabo to the post of vice president, was seen by many Gambians as paving Sabally’s way to the presidency. President Jawara himself was partly to blame for the crisis.
The Gambia’s three main political parties or their representatives were also present—Hamat Bah (NRP) and Omar Jallow (PPP) and Femi Peters stood in for Darboe (UDP). -based Movement for the Restoration of Democracy in The Gambia (MRDGUK). All spoke passionately about the poor human rights record under Jammeh. At the end of the meeting, Jane Abbot, Labour MP for Hackney North, and David Cobyln MP for Islington North and vice president of the Human Rights Parliamentary Group, pledged support for the restoration of the rule of law and democracy in this once democratic former British colony.